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Deaths in March 1985

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1985.

March 1985
1George Banks, 46, American baseball player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. • Henry Butters, 86, Scottish civil servant. • Charlotte Delbo, 71, French memoirist (Auschwitz and After), lung cancer. • Oscar C. Eliason, 83, Swedish-born American evangelist. • Han Xianglin, 78-79, Chinese humanitarian. • Abdul Kadir, 67-68, Turkish poet. • Daniel Richard Lascelles, 76, British barrister. • Eugene List, 66, American pianist, fall. • Buck MacDonald, 90, American football player. • Bob Parsons, 69, American basketball player. • Alf Pope, 80, English racewalker. • Marcelle Rumeau, 72, French politician. • Alfred Martyn Williams, 87, British politician, MP (1924–1929). • Ralph Williams, 79, Welsh footballer. • Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 86, Montenegrin-American dancer. • Alfred Zeisler, 87, American-born German filmmaker. 2Carl Bacchus, 80, American football player. • Edgar Behr, 74, German Olympic sailor (1932). • Arthur Champion, Baron Champion, 87, British politician, MP (1945–1959). • Mercury Ghilarov, 72, Soviet soil scientist. • Jackson Graham, 69, American general. • Leslie Green, 71, American baseball player. • Lauri Hakulinen, 85, Finnish linguist. • Omer Huyse, 86, Belgian racing cyclist. • Jack Kelly Jr., 57, American Olympic rower (1956) and politician, heart attack. • Robert Bruce Lindsay, 85, American physicist. • Tim Robb, 60, Australian footballer. • Wilhelm Rothmayer, 74, Austrian Olympic runner (1936). • Runme Shaw, 84, Singaporean businessman (Shaw Organisation). • William Stringfellow, 56, American theologian, lawyer, and activist, diabetes. • Gyula Szepes, 85, Hungarian Olympic skier (1928). • Julie Vlasto, 81, French tennis player. • Alexander Watt, 92, Scottish botanist. 3Alan Beaney, 80, British politician, MP (1959–1974). • Sarah Gibson Blanding, 86, American academic administrator. • Kyril Bonfiglioli, 56, British novelist (Mortdecai) and art dealer, cirrhosis. • Jack Boyd, 63, Australian politician. • Krešimir Friedrich, 86, Yugoslav Croatian tennis player. • Thomas F. Gallagher, 87, American judge. • Connie Gilchrist, 89, American actress. • Jean Nickels, 68, Luxembourgish Olympic canoeist (1948). • F. S. Northedge, 66, British political scientist. • Howard Okey, 79, Australian footballer. • Noel Purcell, 84, Irish actor. • Hermann Roßmann, 83, German writer. • Sándor Scheiber, 71, Hungarian rabbi, cancer. • Iosif Shklovsky, 68, Soviet astrophysicist and astronomer. 4Pete Karpuk, 58, Canadian football player, heart attack. • Julia Southard Lee, 87, American textile chemist. • Odd Rasdal, 73, Norwegian Olympic runner (1936). • Rod Smylie, 89, Canadian ice hockey player. • Vera Brown Starr, 60, American politician. • Lukas Strachan, 77, South African rugby player. • Sverre Strandli, 59, Norwegian Olympic hammer thrower (1952, 1956, 1960). • Wolfgang Weber, 82, German photojournalist and film producer. 5William Dawnay-Mould, 83, English-born Australian politician. • John Finlay, 66, English footballer. • Sven-Olov Lawesson, 58, Swedish chemist. • Thomas Little, 98, American set decorator. • Dave McGrath, 85, Australian footballer. • Oskar Ritter, 83, German footballer. • Pat Ryan, 34, New Zealand rugby player, cancer. • Eric Sloane, 80, American artist, heart attack. • Cyril Stiles, 80, New Zealand Olympic rower (1932). • Willard Stone, 69, American woodcarver. • Ruben Tagalog, 62, Filipino actor and musician. • Alter Tsypkin, 94, Soviet lawyer and legal scholar. • Brenda Ueland, 93, American journalist and author. 6Martin Begley, 81, American actor and talent scout. • Klemens Biniakowski, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter (1928). • Hans Brunke, 80, German footballer. • Russell Cunningham, 79, Canadian politician. • Martha Dix, 89, German goldsmith and silversmith. • Elise Harmon, 75, American chemist, biologist and inventor. • Sebastian Huber, 83, German Olympic bobsledder (1928, 1932). • Kenneth McFarland, 78, American educator and political commentator. • Marisa Mori, 84, Italian painter. • Marion Nicoll, 75, Canadian painter. • Denzil Peiris, 67, Sri Lankan journalist. • Anthony Russo, 65, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972). 7Danny Blair, 80, Scottish footballer. • Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown, 76, British businessman and politician. • Frank Catrone, 78, American horse racing jockey. • Max Cross, 50, Australian footballer. • Victorio Edades, 89, Filipino painter. • Victor Farris, 75, American businessman and inventor. • Arkady Fiedler, 90, Polish journalist and traveler. • Raúl Lacabanne, 70, Argentine politician. • Sir Ralph Morton, 88, Zimbabwean judge. • Clara Winsome Muirhead, 69, Scottish botanist. • Alan Muntz, 85, British aeronautical engineer. • Jessie Oonark, 79, Canadian artist. • George Schick, 76, Czech-American conductor and music educator. • Robert W. Woodruff, 95, American businessman (The Coca-Cola Company) and philanthropist. 8G. Allana, 78, Pakistani author and poet. • Edward Andrews, 70, American actor, heart attack. • Bertram L. Baker, 87, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1949–1970). • Bull Curry, 71, American professional wrestler, liver disease. • Edgar Dale, 84, American educator. • George A. Doole Jr., 75, American Air Force pilot. • Gladys Egan, 84, American actress. • Lorenzo Elizaga, 81, Mexican Olympic bobsledder (1928). • Reuben Goodstein, 72, English mathematician. • Laura Guggenbühl, 83, American mathematician. • LeRoy R. Hafen, 91, American historian. • Ralph Ingersoll, 84, American publisher. • Kim Yong-sik, 74, South Korean footballer. • Charles Guy Parsloe, 84, British historian and politician. • Paul Ramdohr, 95, German mineralogist. • Margaretta Salinger, 77, American art historian. • Runor Sandström, 75, Swedish Olympic water polo player (1936). • Lon Stiner, 81, American football player and coach. • Al Todd, 83, American baseball player, manager and scout. • Donald M. Weller, 76, American general. • James Roger Whelan, 70, Canadian RAF pilot. 9Robert Blackwell, 66, American record producer and bandleader, pneumonia. • Harry Catterick, 65, English footballer. • William Fisher, 94, American painter. • Chan Gurney, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1939–1951). • Edmund Henry Hambly, 80, British politician, linguist and surgeon. • Campbell Hoy, 92, British flying ace. • Percy Hunt, 62, Australian footballer. • William E. Jenner, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1944–1945, 1947–1959), respiratory disease. • John Tudor Jones, 81, Welsh journalist, poet and translator. • Richard Oetzel, 83, German politician. • Isaac Phills, 89, Canadian steelworker. • K. Rajalingam, 75, Sri Lankan politician. • Annar Ryen, 75, Norwegian skier. • Göran Widenfelt, 56, Swedish Olympic athlete (1948, 1952). 10Alan Barber, 79, English cricketer. • Gustavo Capanema, 84, Brazilian politician. • Konstantin Chernenko, 73, Soviet politician, general secretary (since 1984), emphysema. • Bill Cooper, 70, American baseball player. • Salawati Daud, 75, Indonesian politician. • James Frazier, 44, American conductor. • Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, 69, British businessman and hereditary peer. • Wally Hull, 78, English speedway racer. • Angelo Raffaele Jervolino, 94, Italian politician. • Eddie Lang, 49, American R&B singer. • Bob Nieman, 58, American baseball player, heart attack. • Israel Regardie, 77, English-American magician and occultist, heart attack. • Leslie Nelson Shaw, 62, American postmaster. • Joan Shorenstein, 38, American journalist, breast cancer. • C. B. van Niel, 87, Dutch-American microbiologist. 11Tom Adams, 53, Barbadian politician, prime minister (since 1976), heart attack. • Nazem Akkari, 82-83, Lebanese politician, prime minister (1952). • William Bailey, 66, British-Portuguese naval commander. • Ernest W. Barrett, 62, American politician. • Mitter Bedi, 59, Indian photographer, heart failure. • Laurent Boillat, 73, Swiss sculptor. • Constant Bucher, 85, Swiss Olympic athlete (1920, 1924). • Brigitte Gros, 59, French politician and journalist. • Lee Shepherd, 40, American racing driver, racing crash. • Indumati Chimanlal Sheth, 78, Indian politician and independence activist. 12Earle Clements, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1948) and Senate (1950–1957), governor of Kentucky (1947–1950). • José de Rivera, 80, American sculptor, complications from a stroke. • Alfred Eluère, 91, French rugby player. • Ronald Gibbs, 84, American football player and coach. • Harry Gideonse, 83, Dutch-born American economist. • Ragnvald Marensius Gundersen, 77, Norwegian politician. • Sig Herzig, 87, American screenwriter and playwright. • Hugh Hibbert, 73, English cricketer. • Stjepan Horvat, 89, Yugoslav Croatian geodesist and academic administrator. • Harras Kyttä, 72, Finnish politician, MP (1951–1964). • George L. Leech, 94, American Roman Catholic prelate. • Alastair Mars, 70, English submarine commander and author. • Eugene Ormandy, 85, Hungarian-born American violinist and conductor, pneumonia. • Juan Sordo Madaleno, 68, Mexican architect. • Yang Kui, 78, Taiwanese writer and activist. 13Mabel Alvarez, 93, American painter. • Elmer A. Benson, 89, American politician, governor of Minnesota (1937–1939), member of the U.S. Senate (1935–1936). • Louise Holland Coe, 90, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1925–1941). • Dinesh Das, 71, Indian poet and political activist. • Hans Eckstein, 76, German Olympic water polo player (1932). • Hossein Gol-e-Golab, 89-90, Iranian scholar and lyricist ("Ey Iran"). • Jules Gregory, 64, American architect. • Annette Hanshaw, 83, American singer, cancer. • Henry Hunt, 61, Canadian woodcarver. • Stephen Morin, 34, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection. • Bernard Nanga, 50, Cameroonian philosopher and sociologist. • Narla Venkateswara Rao, 76, Indian journalist and politician. • Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, 39, American socialite, lung cancer. • Evald Segerström, 82, Swedish Olympic racewalker (1936). • Bob Shad, 65, American record producer, heart attack. • Jesús Silva Herzog, 92, Mexican economist and historian. • James D. Williams, 42, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 1981). 14Norma Elizabeth Boyd, 96, American educator. • Joe Brown, 75, American sculptor. • Hélio Lourenço de Oliveira, 67, Brazilian physician. • Wilf Humble, 48, English footballer. • Kathleen Lemass, 86, Irish socialite, spouse of the Taoiseach (1959–1966). • Sir Arthur Nevill, 85, New Zealand military aviator. • Jock O'Brien, 76, Australian footballer. • František Patočka, 80, Czechoslovak microbiologist. • Karel Zouhar, 68, Czechoslovak military aviator. 15George Abramson, 81, American football player. • Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew, 72, American botanist. • Oscar J. Brittingham Jr., 78, American politician. • Radha Krishna Choudhary, 64, Indian historian, cardiac arrest. • Morry Davis, 90, British politician. • Alan A. Freeman, 64, English record producer. • Helge Haavind, 68, Norwegian barrister. • Ian Lapraik, 69, British soldier. • Aroj Ali Matubbar, 84, Bangladeshi philosopher. • Kazimierz Polus, 55, Polish convicted serial killer, execution by hanging. 16Mehdi Bakeri, 30, Iranian soldier, killed in action. • Marius Cayouette, 80, Canadian organist and composer. • Musuri Krishnamurthy, 55, Indian actor and filmmaker. • Archibald Lamont, 77, Scottish paleontologist and geologist. • Frédéric Langrenay, 85, French Olympic runner (1920). • Jean Purdy, 39, British embryologist, melanoma. • Edwin J. Roland, 80, American Coast Guard admiral. • Bert Röling, 78, Dutch jurist. • G. B. Senanayake, 71, Sri Lankan novelist. • Roger Sessions, 88, American composer and music educator. • Eddie Shore, 82, Canadian ice hockey player. • Ernst Tillich, 74, German theologian. 17Anita Boyer, 69, American singer. • Nikolai Gusarov, 79, Soviet Byelorussian politician. • Frank Lock, 63, English footballer. • Bongi Makeba, 34, South African singer, complications from childbirth. • Eva Morrison, 74, American long-distance swimmer. • Ike Pearson, 68, American baseball player. • Dattu Phadkar, 59, Indian cricketer. • Ali-Akbar Shahnazi, 87, Iranian tar musician. • Athole Shearer, 84, Canadian-American actress and socialite. • Kelly Tarlton, 47, New Zealand marine archaeologist. 18Ernest Cassutto, 65, Dutch-American memoirist. • Myrtle Cook, 83, Canadian Olympic runner (1928). • Charlie Healy, 85, Australian footballer. • Walter T. McCarthy, 86-87, American judge. • Pang Xunqin, 78, Chinese artist. • Victor Staley, 85, English footballer. • Merrill C. Tenney, 80, American Biblical scholar and theologian. • L. R. G. Treloar, 78, British polymer scientist. • Dudley Williams, 75-76, Australian public servant. • Eddie Younger, 62, American basketball player. 19Cairo Dixon, 74, Australian footballer. • Oliver Dolan, 91, English rugby player. • Giuseppe Ercolani, 83, Italian racing cyclist. • Michał Górski, 73, Polish Olympic skier (1936). • Thomas J. Hatem, 59, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1955–1958), leukemia. • Anthony Nelson Keys, 73, British film producer. • Everett Newcomb, 89, Canadian politician. • Erik Palmén, 86, Finnish meteorologist. • Jesús Reyes Heroles, 63, Mexican politician, lung cancer. • Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Polish-American writer and novelist, heart attack. • Harue Yamashita, 83, Japanese politician. 20Victor Capesius, 78, German pharmacist and concentration camp official. • W. L. Cook, 90, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (1949–1963). • John B. Lis, 69, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1954–1972), cancer. • Margarete Rosenberg, 74, German train conductor and Holocaust survivor. • Robert Young, 93, British politician, MP (1929–1931). 21Bjørn Benterud, 84, Norwegian sports official. • Tito Davison, 72, Chilean-born Mexican filmmaker. • Stevan Jakuš, 63, Yugoslav footballer. • Hossein Khalatbari, 35, Iranian fighter pilot, shootdown. • Billy Lynch, 75, Australian footballer. • Stefan Matuszewski, 79, Polish politician and educator. • Hassan Qraytim, 65-66, Lebanese politician. • Sir Michael Redgrave, 77, English actor (Mourning Becomes Electra, Time Without Pity, The Browning Version), Parkinson's disease. • Stanisław Rembek, 83, Polish novelist. • Joseph Tezanos, 64, American Coast Guard officer. • Michael Trubshawe, 79, British actor. • Donald Wright, 78, American judge. 22Arthur Allyn Jr., 71, American baseball executive. • Hamoud Al-Jaifi, 67, Yemeni politician, prime minister (1964–1965). • Ben Jannif, 76, Fijian politician. • Albin Jansson, 87, Swedish ice hockey player. • Salomon Klass, 77, Finnish soldier. • Grégoire Laurent, 79, Luxembourgish Olympic boxer (1924). • Károly Olt, 80, Hungarian politician. • Frank Sancet, 77, American baseball player. • Raoul Ubac, 74, French artist. • Spyros Vassiliou, 81, Greek artist. • Marvin Yancy, 34, American gospel singer, heart attack. 23Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, 71, British railway executive. • Peter Charanis, 76, Greek-born American historian. • Anton Constandse, 85, Dutch author and journalist. • Ben Hardwick, 3, British child, country's youngest liver transplant patient, complications from surgery. • Patricia Roberts Harris, 60, American politician and diplomat, HUD secretary (1977–1979) and HHS secretary (1979–1981), breast cancer. • Reginald Hyde, 72, New Zealand flying ace. • Asao Koike, 54, Japanese actor. • Joseph-Armand Landry, 66, Canadian politician, MP (1957–1958). • José Alberto Medrano, 67, Salvadoran general, shot. • Lefty Mellix, 88, American baseball player. • Joseph Novales, 47, Spanish-born French racing cyclist. • Zoot Sims, 59, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer. 24Arthur Blake, 71, American actor and drag queen, heart attack. • Johnny Curran, 60, Scottish footballer. • Dorothy Gordon, 94, Australian actress and journalist. • Dick Kinney, 68, American comic book writer and animator. • Malcolm Laney, 74-75, American college sports coach. • George London, 64, American opera singer, heart attack. • José Luis Munguía, 25, Salvadoran footballer, traffic collision. • Arthur D. Nicholson, 37, American soldier, shot. • Colm O'Brien, 37, Irish Olympic fencer (1968). • Sandër Prosi, 65, Albanian actor. • Elwyn B. Robinson, 79, American historian. • Dorothy Roe, 80, American journalist. • Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher, 88, German legal scholar. • Ed Stege, 71, American basketball player. 25Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, 75, Danish actor. • Curt Barclay, 53, American baseball player, cancer. • Horace Birks, 87, British general. • William Clyde, 72, British flying ace. • Victor Herman, 69, American parachute jumper and Soviet prisoner. • Thelma Kench, 71, New Zealand Olympic sprinter (1932). • Zvee Scooler, 85, Russian-born American actor and radio commentator. • Joe Wood, 65, American baseball player, house fire. 26Mort Hoppenfeld, 56, American urban planner, heart attack. • Norton Hughes-Hallett, 89, British cricketer. • Žarko Jovanović, 59, Yugoslav Serbian musician. • Kamraj Kesari, 62, Indian cricketer. • Delmas H. Nucker, 77, American politician and government official, heart attack. • Irene Savidge, 79, British factory worker and police interrogation subject. • John Ward-Harrison, 66-67, British general. • Henry J. Wilson, 80, British soldier and farmer. 27Pierino Baffi, 54, Italian racing cyclist. • Hugh Farquharson, 73, Canadian ice hockey player. • Mae Glover, 78, American blues singer. • Lydia Manley Henry, 93, British-Canadian medical practitioner. • Ingeborg Hoffmann, 63, German actress, pulmonary embolism. • Ben Ramsey, 81, American politician, lieutenant governor of Texas (1951–1961). • Edgar Preston Richardson, 82, American museum director and art historian, complications from a stroke. • Don Rico, 72, American comic book writer and artist, co-creator of Black Widow, cancer. • Robert Shaw, 80, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1967–1972). • Ellen S. Spinden, 87, American archaeologist. • Péter Szervánszky, 71, Hungarian violinist. • Einar Tufte-Johnsen, 69, Norwegian aviation officer. • Christopher Vokes, 80, Canadian general. 28Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria, 63, German royal. • Louis-Philippe Beaubien, 82, Canadian politician. • J. Seelye Bixler, 90, American academic administrator, pneumonia. • Ana Rosa Chacón, 95-96, Costa Rican educator and social activist. • Marc Chagall, 97, Russian-French artist. • Ray Dodge, 84, American Olympic runner (1924). • József Györe, 82, Hungarian politician. • Henry Hansen, 83, Danish racing cyclist. • Eduard Neumann, 81, German philologist. • Marcus Nikkanen, 81, Finnish Olympic figure skater (1928, 1932, 1936). • Jackie Parr, 64, English footballer. • Edward Rosen, 78, American historian, heart failure. • Sandford Lad, 14, British Thoroughbred racehorse. • Odie Spears, 60, American basketball player. • C. Clifton Virts, 75, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1947–1978). • George Lavan Weissman, 68, American communist activist and journalist. 29Roald Amundsen, 71, Norwegian footballer. • Sir Ken Anderson, 75, Australian politician, complications from Alzheimer's disease. • Ed Bagdonas, 47, American Olympic hammer thrower (1960). • Rudolph Charles, 46, Trinidadian steelpan musician. • Sir Fife Clark, 77, British journalist. • Hermann Herbold, 78, German Olympic rower (1928). • Rae Jenkins, 81, Welsh violinist. • George Murdock, 87, American anthropologist. • Louis A. Perrotta, 84, Italian-born American surgeon. • Jorge Reyes, 78, Argentine-Mexican actor. • The Singing Nun, 51, Belgian Roman Catholic nun and singer ("Dominique"), suicide by drug overdose. • Gerhard Stöck, 73, German Olympic athlete (1936) and Nazi officer. • Joseph Symonds, 85, British politician, MP (1959–1970). • Luther Terry, 73, American physician and public health official, surgeon general (1961–1965), heart attack. • Bob Wilson, 58, Scottish rugby player. 30George Cox Jr, 73, English cricketer. • J. V. Cunningham, 73, American poet and literary critic, heart failure. • Innokenti Gerasimov, 79, Soviet geographer. • John Jolliffe, 55, British librarian and academic. • Shizuko Kasagi, 70, Japanese singer and actress, ovarian cancer. • Stefan Maria Kuczyński, 80, Polish historian. • Bobby Main, 76, Scottish footballer. • Yaeko Nogami, 99, Japanese novelist. • Kenkichi Oshima, 76, Japanese Olympic jumper (1932). • Harold Peary, 76, American actor and comedian (The Great Gildersleeve), heart attack. • Harry Pringle, 81, Australian radio and television producer. • Martin Roseveare, 86, English mathematician. • Valter Schytt, 65, Swedish glaciologist. • Marek Żuławski, 76, Polish painter and historian. 31Erik Burman, 87, Swedish ice hockey player. • Guillermo Carnero Hoke, 67, Peruvian writer and indigenous rights activist, stroke. • Joseph Elsberry, 63, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen), heart attack. • Michel Georges-Michel, 101, French writer, translator and artist. • T. C. Kelly, 67, Irish composer. • Richard McKeon, 84, American philosopher. • João Moojen, 80, Brazilian zoologist. • David James Nielson, 72, British soldier and businessman. • Joseph Rogatchewsky, 93, Russian-born French singer. ==References==
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